topic Re: eTransmit Setup with a relative path? in AutoCAD Forum

eTransmit Setup with a relative path?

AVieira12 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:19:00 GMT

Is it possible to use a relative path in a custom Transmittal Setup?

I have a typical setup I use for all my projects and it is stored within my drawing template. We use OneDrive, and we have a standard folder directory set up similar to the following for each project:

Project
- System
  - CAD
- Archive
- PDFs

I have the setup pointing back one folder into "Archive". When someone else on my team uses the custom Transmittal Setup for any project, the Transmittal file folder path cannot be found and the user will have to browse to the correct folder. The obvious problem is that the Transmittal file folder path is set up to point to my OneDrive so it has my username stored.

Is there a way to use a relative path or even a Windows path variable (like %username%) in the Transmittal file folder to eliminate the extra step?

Re: eTransmit Setup with a relative path?

pendean — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:35:56 GMT

@AVieira12 wrote:

The obvious problem is that the Transmittal file folder path is set up to point to my OneDrive so it has my username stored.

I suspect you will need to reach out to Microsoft support for that one.

Re: eTransmit Setup with a relative path?

AVieira12 — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:22:29 GMT

@pendean wrote:
@AVieira12 wrote:
The obvious problem is that the Transmittal file folder path is set up to point to my OneDrive so it has my username stored.
I suspect you will need to reach out to Microsoft support for that one.

Maybe...

If I had setup path to save the eTransmit zip directly on the root of the C:\ drive, the path would be valid for anyone who uses the setup. Now if I wanted the Transmittal folder to save to the users Desktop, it would still store my username in the path, i.e. "C:\Users\AVieira12\Desktop" and the path would then be invalid for anyone else who ran the eTransmit command for the same sheet set.

I tried using a relative path "..\..\Archive" and a variable like "C:\Users\%username%\Desktop\Project\Archive" so that it uses the current users username but both of these returned invalid. I know the paths work within Explorer, and for relative paths for x-refs... Looks like I will just have to have them continue browse for folder selection each time, which is fine! I was hoping there was something I hadn't tried yet.

Re: eTransmit Setup with a relative path?

pendean — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:32:58 GMT

I suspect you need to dive into more that just "might be there" shortcuts and into deeper customizing in these other forums (assuming no one is an LT user) https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-customization/ct-p/AutoCADTopic1